Devotions from Just Between US magazine on gratitude Life itself is an incredible gift and we often forget that. In our society there is a hunger for more and more and we have a hard time appreciating all we do have. Gratitude is to be a way of life we are to cherish what we’ve…

Devotions from Just Between Us magazine on waiting on God God often answers our prayers with the four letter word WAIT. Waiting is hard and painful and tiring but it is a discipline that is intended to strengthen us. It is a discipline that produces righteousness and peace. ( Heb. 12:11-12) While we are waiting…

Devotions from an article in Just Between Us on Soul Friendship Soul friends fight for us to become the person God intended all along, reminding us where we are going. They see who we will be, not necessarily who we are now. “To truly love someone is to see them as God intended.” Said Dostoyevsky…

Devotions from Leighton Ford’s book, The Attentive Life God’s love reaches out to us and calls us to our heart’s true home. “Love is seeking us, the only Love that redeems time, that takes the fragments of what is past and the hope of what is coming, and binds them together in the love of…

Yesterday’s sermon spoke especially to me as I had been contemplating these past couple weeks on the Lord singing over me with love, from scripture. I know we all know this in our heads, but do our hearts really know He delights in us and sings over us?  Any way Pastor Thea’s sermon was on…

Devotions from Leighton Ford’s book, The Attentive Life We all go through dark times of doubt, depression, disappointment, betrayal etc  If we learn to embrace our suffering, to carry it rather than lying under its weight and letting ourselves be crushed, then something strange happens.: We have lifted the weight and instead of being crushed…

Devotions from Leighton Ford’s book The Attentive Life As shadows start to lengthen, we realize that things don’t last forever and we need to pay more attention to the things that endure. We begin to wonder what we must let go of. What we need to hold on to closely. What do we need to…

Devotions from Leighton Ford’s book The Attentive Life “We must be still and keep on moving.”  T.S. Elliot   We need to be still because we are not God and He is. When we are still our knowing comes not from without but from within, or more truly, what I see and experience without is received…

Often at the midpoint of our lives we are susceptible to distractions and fatigue. Distractions are not necessarily bad if they are divine interruptions by which God gets our attention and turns us in a new direction.  Think of Saul when his life was interrupted by a divine light.  We need to pay attention when…

Devotions from Leighton Ford’s book, The Attentive Life Why is it that we so often let many busy things of life pull us away from the main thing that should get our full attention? Distraction comes from the Latin word to pull apart. When we are distracted we pull away from what deep down we…